In Room search, housemates, setting boundaries early, I asked how to set some important boundaries early on during a moving process.
The question is when. 5 hours ago, the question was voted as too broad. I've since made some refinements.
Can you explain whether my question is still too broad, ...

We do have an etiquette tag... you might check that out to see if your question is similar to one there... but if you want to know what the appropriate etiquette is for X in Y culture/country, that's probably fine.

I live in Japan. Japan still has a very cash oriented society especially when it comes to restaurants.
Often someone will visit from out of town and will expect to be able to (1) pay with a credit card and (2) pay only their portion on their card. This often ends up turning into a 10 to 20 minut...

Stack Exchange is about questions with objective, factual answers. We’ve been crystal clear about this for as long as I can remember, even back to the earliest, pre-beta days of Stack Overflow. It’s right there in the standard Stack Exchange FAQ:

What kind of questions should I not ask here?

Avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative, or require extended discussion. This is not a discussion board, this is a place for questions that can be answered!

Thus, questions that are not answerable — discussions, debates, opinions — should be closed as subjective. It seems simple enough: Fact good; opinion and discussion bad. But why? …

Anyway, I'm going to bed but go ahead and start with one question, see how it goes... and if you need more help, feel free to ask here or on Meta. We have a bunch of Europeans who will likely be coming online pretty soon and can help. I'll be back in about 8 hours. :D

I once read that in Canada, it is considered polite for men to rise when a woman leaves a room and men normally offer their hands to women.
My question is, why is this tradition considered to be polite and what is its origin?

At social events I have found I am some-what guilty of getting into in depth discussions that may occasionally drag the other person/s away from the main group. Most of the time this is fine, based off reactions of being asked to meet up after, get in contact, thanked for the chat I am fairly con...

As the title says:
How should you react if you notice someone taking pictures of you without your consent?
Background: It happened to me yesterday on the bus that a woman, of about my age, sat across to me. At one point her cell phone flash light turned up for a split second which caught my at...

@AJ How about do the format via hacking (This is black hat.) Also nobody has time to hack someone just to format there data because of some pictures. We at Interpersonal Stack Exchange don't support the use of black hat hacking this is illegal and should not be encouraged.

24 female,India
A few days before, I get this message from one of my school friend in facebook after a long long time.Back in school we were not that great friends or anything just that used to talk at times. And while chatting he asked for my number. Since he was my classmate(I do regard him a...

I am an adult male living in Europe. Recently I have been contacted by a person I hadn't seen for more than ten years.
We used to be colleagues and share a strong interest for our common profession and a few hobbies.
Beyond that we used to have what at that time I could have described as a frien...

I see that this question is on the verge of being closed as too broad. However, I couldn't sit by and not say something about this. Sometimes the person asking the questions takes priority over cold and dry site regulations. — Snow44 mins ago

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I think that someone needs to respond to that, but I don't have the time to do it myself right now.

I have a friend who often insults me in public, by saying that I am his daughter (though I am boy). I really get humiliated since this has 2 meaning:
He thinks he is my father, or more superior to me
I am a girl
He uses the same thing to insult me really often in public, and make others laugh...

@NVZ Hmhmmm.... I was just trying to get clear whether the OP was aware of the consequences such behavior might have, and if that really was their goal. Do they want an aggressive response so that the behaviour stops but they can continue the friendship? Or is everything allowed, including physical violence?

@Sid ah, just checked in an incognito window. i see. it must have been deleted as part of their account deletion. i think point 11 under "by the system" applies here. The system will automatically delete any question (and its answers) or answer with a negative score when its owner’s account is deleted.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5222

> So how should I have responded to these kind of questions? I think it was inappropriate of him to ask me things like that, but I still kept mum. Should I have told him just that or was ignoring the right thing to do?

I am a 24 year old Indian girl.
A few days before, I get this message from one of my school friend in Facebook after a long long time. Back in school we were not that good friends or anything just that we used to talk at times. And while chatting he asked for my number.
Since he was my classma...

> So how should I have responded to these kind of questions? I think it was inappropriate of him to ask me things like that, but I still kept mum. Should I have told him just that or was ignoring the right thing to do?

Like, should I focus on providing the OP with ways to change the topic? Or with ways to politely tell the person that they are asking very private questions? Should I provide them with a way to assert the boundary that they're not going to tell?

It's the 'Should I have told him his questions make him uncomfortable, or just kept on ignoring it' part that makes this really difficult to answer, probably POB at the least too broad. The OP needs to make that decision so I can focus my answer, not me

Recently, I've noticed that this site has a lot of questions where the OP gives a long description of a situation that they're in, but when all's said and done they don't tell us exactly what they're looking for help with, and what goal they want to accomplish.
A good example of this is the ques...

@Tinkeringbell i didnt get you. if your answer is "yeah, continue ignoring them", then explain why that helps OP to stop the asker from asking uncomfy questions. if your answer is something else to reach the same goal, just explain that. i dont see where the "too broad" or "pob" applies here.

@Tinkeringbell the goal is to stop being asked uncomfy questions by the asker.

Are we going to help the OP call the guy out, or are we just going to say 'suck up what happened and ignore him from now on'?

The problem with 'how should I respond' is that it's TOO broad. Shoot him up would be a 'valid' answer here

Yes, I get that they want the uncomfortable questions to stop. But do they want to keep the contact/conversation, call the guy out in the hope that he will stop so they can talk about other stuff? Or are they indeed just here to hear us tell them that ignoring the guy was the best thing to do, because the guy was an asshole?

That last one we're getting more and more lately, where the OP just wants somebody to confirm that what they did was right. That's not good, it would need us making a judgment on a party that didn't have a chance to defend themselves.... :/

@TheTinyMan Yeah, this Friday I'm at another office (client) we had a sprint review... There aren't any drinks organised here. And if they are, we have to pay for drinks. Not so much of a problem either, except that they only serve biological, environmental friendly vegan things here, that are way overpriced

Sinterklaas (Dutch pronunciation: [sɪntər'klaːs]) or Sint-Nicolaas (Dutch pronunciation: [sɪnt 'nikolaːs] ( listen)) is a legendary figure based on Saint Nicholas, patron saint of children. Other names for the figure include De Sint ("The Saint"), De Goede Sint ("The Good Saint"), and De Goedheiligman ("The Good Holy Man") in Dutch; Saint Nicolas in French; Sinteklaas in West Frisian; Sinterklaos in Limburgs; and Kleeschen and Zinniklos in Luxembourgish.
The feast of Sinterklaas celebrates the name day of Saint Nicholas on 6 December. The feast is celebrated annually with the giving of gifts on...

Imagine teaching a subject. What would be more effective? Shouting about it? Or kindly explaining it? Imagine inviting a guest over for lunch. What would be better? Telling them to "come and eat from my place, you parasites"? No!. — NVZDec 5 at 10:55

@NVZ pretty much, yeah. I would define an adult as one is mature and independent enough to think about and solve their own problems instead of appealing to whatever authority is on hand at the slightest sign of unease.

@peufeu not that. i consider an adult to be one who acknowledges feedback from other adults and adapts to fit into whatever place they are in, rather than rattling cages, pissing off neighbours, yelling out "but i speak the truth, y'all."